Stupidae

If they’re not fit to survive, then they die out. Which has approximately dick to do with humans.

It’s at this point in the rant that I usually start hearing about things like the passenger pigeon and the dodo and the bison. Usually because I’m hearing about them from conservatards.

So, let’s go through these one by one….

The passenger pigeon. Ectopistes migratorius. Extinct. Why? Longish story. First, it wasn’t doing too well anyway; it was on the verge of natural extinction when white man come to land and murder injuns. As a result of that invasion, E.migratorius began to thrive. Eventually, there were billions of them. Until they died out. Of course, they died out in large part because they were a fucking plague. Billions of birds, blotting out the sun. People slaughtered them, hoping to reduce their numbers. Which of course worked. What wasn’t predicted, though, was that, at the same time that humans were trying to kill them off, nature was adjusting to the same plague, helping the humans, in its brainless way, to kill the stupid things off. In the end, that worked: they’re gone now. Pretty much because nature hadn’t selected them to survive, then human meddling helped them to thrive, then human countermeddling helped nature to kill them. The end.

So, look at that however you like. Humans were good when killing injuns and causing a pigeon plague, then bad when they corrected the mistake? Fine; whatever.